The insurer says the device is unregistered, so it need not pay. The law replies: notwithstanding any written law, it must.
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Two informal sales, a register three years out of date, and an insurer hoping that a 1992 agreement had quietly erased a 1985 letter. The Federal Court’s memory proved longer than the insurer’s.
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A car sold on a handshake in 2007. A register never told. A crash in 2014. The insurer said the policy died with the sale; the Federal Court read the statute and found the promise still standing exactly where Parliament had left it.
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There are more private cars on Malaysia’s roads than there are Malaysians to drive them. In one consolidated judgment of eight appeals, the Federal Court in Sa’Amran rebuilt the law that governs what happens when one of them causes harm — and decided, point after point, that the victim comes first. This is the gateway to a ten-part series.
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